Why is “Rule Breakers” rated PG? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “thematic material and some violent content.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a club scene that includes people dancing, discussions of interactions between teen girls and boys, discussions of Sharia law, people being shot at by other people in a truck, an explosion in a mosque that kills several people, discussions of unexploded landmines, discussions of limitations placed on women in Afghanistan, discussions of the Taliban, several arguments and some name-calling. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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Based on a true story: A woman is determined to foster the education of young women in Afghanistan and create a robotics team that will compete internationally, while under the exceptionally repressive shadow of the Taliban. Also with Nikohl Boosheri, Noorin Gulamgaus, Ali Fazal, Samir Sinha, Sara Malal Rowe, Nada El Belkasmi, Nada El Belkasmi, Nasser Memarzia, Anita Major, Amber Afzali and Nina Hosseinzadeh. Directed by Bill Guttentag. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in a variety of languages with English subtitles. [Running Time: 2:00]

Rule Breakers SEX/NUDITY 1

 – People are shown dancing in a club and two people kiss in the background. A man and woman hug a few times.
► A young man reaches to shake the hand of a teen girl and she reluctantly offers her finger; she later prays for forgiveness for touching him. People reprimand a woman and teen girls for touching young men when they see Facebook posts about the participants of a robotics competition signing each other’s shirts.
► People wear low-cut costumes at a club and for Halloween that reveal cleavage and bare shoulders. A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage.

Rule Breakers VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – People in a truck swerve around three people in a car and point a gun at them, they push the car off the road and shoot at the windshield until the gun jams and the truck speeds away (no one is injured). We hear an explosion and people rush outside to see dust and rubble in the air; one teen girl rushes away from the crowd and we understand that her father was killed in the explosion in a Mosque (we see bodies on stretchers and people searching through rubble).
► A man talks about being delayed by a suicide bombing having happened at the gates of an airport. A woman receives many threatening messages including, “Watch where you go,” and, “Stop or die.” A man talks about his military service in Afghanistan and how many of his fellow service members died. We hear about unexploded landmines in many countries causing death and injuries every year. We hear that men are refusing to let their daughters participate in computer classes and a robotics team. A man says that teen girls’ fathers would marry them off or beat them. A teen girl says that her uncle yelled at her. Teen girls protest not being allowed to have any fun and always being told what to do. A robotics team presents its robot that will scan the ocean for illegal pollutants, and another team displays its walking stick to aid the vision impaired.
► A robot is dismantled in airport customs, and parts are broken before arriving for a competition and the team has limited time to put it back together. People applying for visas at the U.S. Embassy are denied by specific rules. Several people rush through an airport to be told that there are only two remaining seats on a flight and they need six. A woman asks a man in a cafe if she can use a computer and he is dismissive and tells her that they are for boys. A teacher unpacks computers in a classroom and tells the girls in the room to leave. A young girl tells her father that computers are being delivered to a school but only the boys can use them; the man tells her to tell the school that she wants to use them. Students petition their school for a computer class. A woman tells teen girls that they can complain or fight. We hear that education for girls past the 6th grade is banned in Afghanistan.
► A woman talks about wanting to share what men have been preventing women from learning. A woman says that the parents of several teen girls will have heart attacks when they find out what they are trying to do. A teen girl pretends to be a boy to be able to earn money for her family. A woman tells a man that she needs money to get a team of teens to a robotics competition in the U.S.
► A woman wears a costume for Halloween with stage blood on her face.

Rule Breakers LANGUAGE 1

 – Name-calling (stupid, evil beasts, insane, dirty, inferior, infidel, snake, hopeless, horrible, selfish), 3 religious exclamations (e.g. God, thank God). | profanity glossary |

Rule Breakers SUBSTANCE USE

 – People drink in a nightclub.

Rule Breakers DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Taliban, Sharia law, gender roles, STEM, computers, robotics, living in fear, hope for the future, achieving potential, strength, repression, organizing information, funding.

Rule Breakers MESSAGE

 – Knowledge is power.